The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class.

I do not believe in self-proclaimed parties.

You cannot make a socialist revolution without really trying.

Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable.

There is a process of social and of political differentiation going on in the real working class all the time.

Factions are a sign of illness in a party.

There has been hardly a single year since 1917, and in a certain sense since 1905, without a revolution somewhere in the world in which the workers participated in a rather important way.